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Communicating effectively is an essential part of what it means to be an educated person. It is our central mission to educate UAB students about communication. We offer both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in communication and mass media. We offer specific degrees in communication management, public relations, broadcasting, journalism, and sports communication. We prioritize excellence in instruction in all our courses and degree programs. Our faculty are leaders in a variety of research areas relevant to communication.

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Interviewing: Situations and Contexts

Interviewing: Situations and Contexts
(Pearson, 2005)

By Larry Powell and Jonathan Amsbary

"This is one of the most readable texts I have encountered in a long time. It is easy to follow with an excellent balance.” — Esin C. Turk, Mississippi Valley State University

Interviewing: Situations and Contexts offers students the broadest coverage of interviewing available today by including several unique interview situations. Because this text demonstrates that interviewing techniques differ in accordance with varying situations and contexts, students develop a more complete understanding of how to utilize strong interviewing skills in a number of different settings. Lucidly written and completely engaging, this text provides students with the tools they will need to succeed no matter what the interview.

Key Features

  • The text provides students with the broadest coverage of interviewing available today — including a variety of settings ignored by other texts — students will understand how interviewing techniques differ by situations and contexts.
  • The text covers several unique interviewing situations that are on the cutting edge of communication research, including interviews in the media, interviewing in the legal setting, interviewing in politics, and interviewing in everyday life.
  • Each chapter includes an interview with a professional from the field covered in that chapter, providing students with an opportunity to view how interviewing is applied in that particular context.
  • To constantly reinforce the contexts around the interviewing process, each chapter includes multiple sidebars on related theoretical and applied issues.
  • The text offers numerous scenarios and discussion questions throughout to help students make connections between theory, research, and application.